HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role for a specialist higher education think tank.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Education Policy Educational Policy 52

HEPI

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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Education Higher Education Policy Educational Policy 118

SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

In most authoritarian states, universities and colleges do not seem to carry the same weight as the judiciary: they are apparently mostly left to get on with their work in peace, providing, naturally, that they don’t cause trouble for the regime. If this isn’t a fight worth having, I don’t know what is.

University 52

University University Grant Department History 52

The PIE News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

but only if the education is funded through a loan from a financial institution. As for those pursuing their higher education without the support of a loan, the TCS rate stands at 5%. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s updated rules if the remittance amount exceeds INR 700,000 (approx. last year to Rs2.5m

Allocate 82

Allocate Inclusivity University Grant Scholarship 82

SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure. The system is too large, too bureaucratic and too monocentric.

Educational Systems 61

Educational Systems Education Recruitment Higher Education 61

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

The criteria, which were expected to be finalized later this month following consultation, clarify the rules for international universities setting up Indian campuses, a shift first announced in the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP).

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University Guidance University Grant Advise 82

HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Government had been alerted to the future funding dilemmas posed by the likely increase in the demand for student places in higher education by the Treasury through the University Grants Committee (UGC) and appointed Lord Robbins as a safe pair of hands (with a strong Treasury background as well as holding a leading university position).

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Policy Higher Education Ministry Of Education Disadvantaged 78